Annual survey of HR buyers’ behavior underscores the importance of being online

Among buyers of HR products and services, about one-third begin their search for a vendor or service provider by searching the Internet, according to an annual survey conducted by HRmarketer.com.

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Podcast: Looking to get into COBRA admin?

Here’s your chance. Well-known TPA COBRAGuard now offers a program that will let others administer COBRA for clients under their own brand name. President and CEO Bob Meyers shares why it’s worth the investment.

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Trustmark set to acquire HealthFitness

Voluntary benefits provider Trustmark Mutual Holding Company is looking to broaden its horizons with a cash-tender acquisition of Health Fitness Corporation, an award-winning provider of integrated health and fitness management services, valued at about $97 million on a fully diluted basis that could close in the first quarter of 2010.

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Podcast: Lessons from the ghost of open enrollment past

Graem Clark, assistant vice president of national accounts at Colonial Life, sits down with Associate Editor Lydell Bridgeford to discuss lessons employers most likely learned from the 2009 open enrollment season and the company’s latest research on the open enrollment experience.

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